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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Obama’s reign of terror certainly didn’t help, but big companies have been laying off older workers (older as in, in their fifties) for decades. It sucks. I have never considered myself a populist raging against the rich, but after the last 10 years, I have considered buying a pitchfork and a torch.


20 posted on 08/09/2018 1:10:10 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (".... and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX
big companies have been laying off older workers (older as in, in their fifties) for decades. It sucks.

And against the law if based on age.

22 posted on 08/09/2018 1:12:26 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Yep. They just went through this at a company where I was a Middle Manager. I retired in 2016 at 56.

Two short years later, after my well-trained underlings did a bang-up job and made a LOT of money for them it was, OUT with the ‘old’ and in with the cheap & clueless, ‘new.’

It was awful, but everyone laid off survived and is better off for it, now. Our area is clamoring for workers of any age with actual ‘skills.’


23 posted on 08/09/2018 1:27:55 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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